Cable-carrier apparatus.



G. A. AMSDEN.

GABLE CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLIUATION'IILED DEG.2,190B.

Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

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G. A. AMSDEN.

CABLE GARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED Jam-z, 190s.-

1,076,936. I v Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

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WTTED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

GEORGE A. AMSDEN, OF LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LAMSOIN COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JER$EY, A CORPORATION OF DIE-VT JERSEY.

CABLE-CARRIER APPARATUS.

Specification of letters Patent.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen A. Aiu'snnN, of Littleton, in the county of Middlesex and .State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable- Carrier Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cable carrier apparatus and its object is to provide a system which will, do away with the overhead tracks and unsightly construc tion and in which the stations occupy a minimum of space. This is accomplished by installing the main line tracks beneath the flooring andprojecting the stations upward through the flooring in the form of a loop thereby exposing to view only the said stations.

In the accompanying drawings is illustrated a construction embodying my invention, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a rise loop despatching and receiving, clerks station. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same looking in the direction indicated by arrow 2. Fig. 3 is an opposite side elevation of the station looking in the direction indicated by arrow 3.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A represents a section of the floor of an establishment at which is located the vertical rise olerks or way station E. The ingoing tracks D and the out-going tracks E are supported and held in alinement by brackets F and G, respectively, and are located beneath the floor A. At the point where the clerks station E is located, the main tracks D and E turn and extend through said floor forming a vertical rise station. At one of the turns or bends the main tracks D and E are supported by a suitable corner bracket H, while at the other turn or bend the tracks D are supported by a corner bracket J and the tracks E by a corner bracket K. These bends or turns form an angle of 90 degrees and the tracks extending through the floor A form a loop or way station, the upper end of which is supported by a corner bracket L. This bracket is secured to the upper part of a standard M which is secured to the floor A at its lower end, and supported by braces M. This standard serves to support and maintain a rigid position of the vertical loop or rise station.

Patented Oct. 28, 1913. Serial No. 465,753.

C represents the inward moving portion of a driving cable which follows the iii-going tracks D and is adapted to actuate carriers thereon from any of the said clerks stations, to the main or cashiers station, while C is the outward moving portion of the driving cable which follows the out-going tracks E and is adapted to actuate carriers along said tracks frointhe main or cashiers station, to the clerks station. The inward moving portion C of the driving cable at the main line level is supported by the corner pulleys N and I journaled in the corner brackets H and J respectively. At the turn in the upper portion of the loop or way station E, the iii-going portion C of the cable is supported by a single pulley O. The out-going portion C of the cable at the main line level is supported at the turns or bends by the pulleys P and P journaled in the corner brackets K and H, respectively, while at the upper turn in the loop the said cable C is supported by a single pulley O journaled in the bracket L. The tracks D adjacent the upper portion of the loop are diverted, offsetting the same from tracks E, causing the said tracks to be easily accessible to the operator. The portion C of the cable is diverted along these tracks by a pulley or idler journaled in the bracket Q. Adjacent this pulley Q; are openings R in the tracks D to permit the insertion of a carrier into coiiperation with said tracks for despatch to the main station.

E is the usual device for closing the grip of the carrier to engage the same with the cable when a carrier is pushed down along the tracks D. i

S is a switch track for diverting carriers intended for the station E, from the out-going tracks E onto the receiving tracks S, and T is a pawl rack adapted to receive and retain the carriers on said tracks S until removed by the operator.

When a carrier is to be despatched from the clerks station B to the main or cashiers station, the carrier is inserted through the openings E into coiiperation with the tracks D and moved downward by the operator until the grip on the carrier is closed by the device E, engaging the carrier with the portion C of the cable, when the carrier will be transmitted along said tracks D to the cashiers station. Any carriers in transmission along the tracks D from other outgoing station to the main station will pass through the rise or loop of the way station B.

A carrier in transit from the main station along the tracks E passes upward along said tracks into the loop at station E and if the carrier is intended for said station B it engages the switch track S and is diverted onto the receiving track S by its own momentum until it is engaged and retained by pawl rack T near the upper end of said re ceiving track S when the carrier may be removed through the open terminal X of said receiving track by the operator. It a carrier in transit from the main station is intended for another way station it merely passes through the rise or loop at the clerks station B and continues its journey along the main line of said tracks D. The carriers are in all cases visible from the space above the apertured floor only when substantially at a station or passing therethrough. Furthermore, said carriers are obviously protected by the floor from interference by malicious or mischievously disposed persons, while passing between stations.

Having thus described my invention and set forth a construction embodying the same, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is;

1. In cable carrier apparatus, the combination of a floor, a way extending beneath the floor comprising outgoing and ingoing tracks, a carrier to travel on the way, an endless motor cable to propel the carrier along the way, a rise loop formed in the way extending at right angles from the same upward through the floor comprising closely associated narrow elongated U- shaped track-sections, a standard mounted on the floor extending toward the upper end of the rise loop, a bracket on the upper end of the standard supporting the upper end of the rise loop, means in the track-section of the outgoing member of the rise loop to deliver the carrier from the way, and means in the track-section of the ingoing member of the rise loop to admit the carrier to the way.

2. In cable carrier apparatus, the combination of a floor, a way extending beneath the floor comprising outgoing and ingoing tracks, a carrier to travel on the way, an endless motor cable to propel the carrier along the way, a rise loop formed in the way extending at right angles from the same upward through the floor comprising closely associated narrow elongated U- shaped track-sections with one of the arms of the ingoing track-section oiiset to a position between the arms of the outgoing tractsection, a standard mounted on the floor and extending toward the upper end of the rise loop, a bracket on the upper end of the standard supporting the upper end of the rise loop, means in the track-section of the outgoing member of the rise loop to deliver the carrier from the way, and means in the offset arm in the track-section of the ingoing member of the rise loop to admit the carrier to the way.

'3. In a cable carrier system, the combination of a floor having an aperture therein at a station in said system, a substantially horizontal transmission way extending beneath said floor and substantially concealed thereby, an upward extension from said way 7 adapted to guidedly direct a carrier traversing the latter up through said aperture to said station, continuously driven means for propelling said carrier along said horizontal way and up through said aperture, a part at least of said continuously driven means running through said aperture in operative relationship to said upward extension, and selective means for insuring the delivery to and stoppage of predetermined carriers only at said station, said last mentioned means including guides adapted to retain a plural ity of successive carriers delivered to said station, in sequential order, said carriers being visible from the space above said floor only when substantially at the stations and being protected by said floor while in transit between stations.

4. In a cable carrier system, the combination of combined protective, concealing and supporting floor having an aperture, a station above said floor and a substantially horizontal transmission way extending beneath said floor and substantially concealed thereby, means for supporting said Way from said floor, an upturned extension from said way adapted to guidedly direct a carrier traversing the latter up through said aperture to said station, continuously driven means for propelling said carrier along said horizontal way and up through said aperture in operative relationship to said upward extension, and selective means for insuring the delivery to and stoppage of predetermined carriers only at said station, said last mentioned means including guides adapted to retain a plurality of successive carriers delivered to said station in sequential order, said guides conveying the carriers delivered thereto downwardly after said carriers have upwardly traversed said extension.

5. In a cable carrier system, the combination of a combined protective, concealing and supporting floor having an aperture, a station above said floor and a substantially horizontal transmission way extending beneath said floor and substantially concealed thereby, means for supporting said way from said floor, an upturned extension from said way adapted to guidedly direct a carrier traversing the latter up through said aperture to said station, continuously driven means for propelling said carrier along said horizontal way and up through said aperture in operative relationship to said upward extension, and selective means for insuring the delivery to and stoppage of predetermined carriers only at said station, said last mentioned means including guides adapted to retain a plurality of successive carriers delivered to said station in sequential order, said guides conveying the carriers delivered thereto downwardly after said carriers have upwardly traversed said extension and being looped upwardly at the lower portions thereof to check the movement of carriers.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this twelfth day of November A. D. 1908.

GEORGE A. AMSDEN.

Witnesses:

M. F. Gooonon, A. L. Mnssnn.

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